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The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.
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Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some respects historical research is analogous with that of science. The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative. But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower, questioning the idea of Art with a capital 'A', photography was inevitably to assume a new stature both in the eyes of artists and the public, too.
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Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which no previous age could have dreaded or dreamed of.
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Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
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... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.
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Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
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And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
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But now, you are twain, you are cloven apart Flesh of his flesh, but heart of my heart.
